With managers moving in the Championship after changes at Aston Villa there is plenty of transfer gossip.

Here is all the latest.

Brentford and Villa latest

Ollie Watkins

Birmingham Live report that Brentford’s sporting director has admitted that the club will find it difficult to prevent Dean Smith revisiting Griffin Park and tempting members of the Bees squad to Villa Park in the January transfer window.

Smith was confirmed as Steve Bruce’s successor at Aston Villa on Wednesday and will likely look to add to his inherited squad once the winter window commences.

There is a chance he will look to raid the team he knows so well, which includes the division’s top scorer Neal Maupay and winger Ollie Watkins.

Bees sporting director Phil Giles, though insisting that there are no guarantees that Smith will be reunited with any potential targets, did concede that if a sufficient offer was made for any of the array of Brentford stars it’d be hard to reject said bid.